【英文原文】

Tomoe Inn Window, Hagi, Japan, 1984
"Seeing with eyes of the heart—known as mono no aware in Japanese—describes the way to understand this visual poem of a tree, framed by a window, against a backdrop of roof tiles at Hagi's Tomoe Inn. Set to haiku, a traditional Japanese poetry form, the scene reads:

"A courtyard window
This tree stands, remembering
The old Tomoe."

【中文翻譯】

用心靈的眼睛感受——即日語里的“物哀”（mono no aware）——描述了怎樣解讀一棵樹的視覺詩。在萩的友惠旅館里，這棵樹以窗為框，以屋頂瓦片為背景。俳句是日本一種傳統(tǒng)的詩歌形式，用它來解讀這幅景色：
“一個(gè)庭院的窗戶，這棵樹站立著，回憶，古老的友惠。”

——摘自1984年《國(guó)家地理雜志》6月號(hào)《萩:日本的革命從哪里開始》